Refresh of the FPGA IIC HYGRO Tester

fpga-iic-hygro-tester-3

FPGA IIC HYGRO Tester Version 3

by Timothy Stotts

Now with support for:

• Digilent Inc. Arty S7-25 FPGA development board containing a small Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA
• Digilent Inc. Arty A7-100 FPGA development board containing a large Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA
• Digilent Inc. Zybo Z7-20 APSoC development board containing a moderate Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC.

Note that this project is kept as a beginner-level design that students, hobbyists, and FPGA enthusiasts may find interesting. Note that the design technique used with the Verilog-HDL example is intended as a FPGA design example and not an ASCI design example.

Description

A small FPGA and APSoC project of different implementations for testing Temperature and Relative Humidity readings of a I2C sensor. Readings are displayed in abbreviated text on a 16x2 character LCD,, with color-mixing two or four RGB LEDs.

The Xilinx MicroBlaze designs can now target either of two FPGA development boards produced by Digilent Inc; one being lower cost. Also, the HDL design can target either of the same two FPGA development boards.

• Digilent Inc. Arty S7-25 FPGA development board containing a small Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA
• Digilent Inc. Arty A7-100 FPGA development board containing a large Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA

Two peripherals are used: Digilent Inc. Pmod SF3, Digilent Inc. Pmod CLS.

Additionally, the Xilinx Zynq design targets the

• Digilent Inc. Zybo Z7-20 FPGA development board containing a Xilinx Zynq-7000 APSoC.

Two peripherals are used: Digilent Inc. Pmod SF3, Digilent Inc. Pmod CLS.

The design is broken into four groupings. The first group targets the Digilent Inc. Arty A7-100 development board. The second group targets the Digilent Inc. Arty S7-25 development board. The third group target either the Digilent Inc. Arty A7-100 development board or the Digilent Inc. Arty S7-25 development board. The last group targets the Digilent Inc. Zybo Z7-20 development board. The projects are likely portable to the smaller Arty A7-35 and Zybo Z7-10, respectively, noting that the Arty A7 example will require modification to fit within the smaller equivalent device.

The folder HYGRO-Tester-Design-MB-A7 contains a Xilinx Vivado IP Integrator plus Xilinx Vitis design. A MicroBlaze soft CPU is instantiated to talk with board components, a temperature and relative humidity sensor, a 16x2 character LCD peripheral, and a two-digit Seven Segment Display. Source to be incorporated into a Xilinx Vitis project contain a very small Standalone program in C; drivers for the peripherals, a main loop to operate and poll the sensor, poll the switches and buttons, update LCD, update 7SD, and color-mix RGB LEDs.

The folder HYGRO-Tester-Design-MB-S7 contains a Xilinx Vivado IP Integrator plus Xilinx Vitis design. The design is essentially the same as the HYGRO-Tester-Design-MB-A7 mentioned above, but instead targets the Arty S7-25 development board, including the differences in available board components, such as count of RGB LEDs, and use of GPIO instead of PWM to operate the LEDs.

The folder HYGRO-Tester-Design-Verilog contains a Xilinx Vivado project with sources containing only Verilog-HDL 2001 modules. Plain HDL without a soft CPU or C code is authored to talk with board components, a temperature and relative humidity sensor peripheral, a 16x2 character LCD peripheral, and a 2-digit 7-segment display. The design is essentially equivalent function as the HYGRO-Tester-Design-MB-A7/S7
projects, but also provides readout on the USB UART at 115200 baud. This design targets either of the Arty A7-100 or the Arty S7-25 development boards, and adjusts for the difference in available board components, such as count of RGB LEDs.

The folder HYGRO-Tester-Design-Zynq contains a Xilinx Vivado IP Integrator plus Xilinx Vitis design. The Zynq hard ARM CPU #0 is configured to talk with board components, and the same temperature/humidity sensor, 16x2 character LCD display, and seven segment display. Its functionality is mostly equivalent function to that of the HYGRO-Tester-Design-MB-A7 design, but differs in the count of RGB LEDs.

These four groupings of design provide equivalent functionality, excepting that the HDL design provides additional animation effect of the board’s three-emitter RGB LEDs.

Naming conventions notice

The Pmod CLS peripheral used in this project connects via a standard bus technology design called SPI. The use of MOSI/MISO terminology is considered obsolete. COPI/CIPO is now used. The MOSI signal on a controller can be replaced with the title ‘COPI’. Master and Slave terms are now Controller and Peripheral. Additional information can be found here. The choice to use COPI and CIPO instead of SDO and SDI for single-direction bus signals is simple. On a single peripheral bus with two data lines of fixed direction, the usage of the signal name “SDO” is dependent on whether the Controller or the Peripheral is the chip being discussed; whereas COPI gives the exact direction regardless of which chip is being discussed. The author of this website agrees with the open source community that the removal of offensive language from standard terminology in engineering is a priority. (Traditional engineering wording is still used in design components and sources where the IP vendor chose the name.)

Project Homepage

FPGA IIC HYGRO Tester Version 3 project and source code

Project information document:

./HYGRO Sensor Readings Tester - Refreshed.pdf

HYGRO Sensor Readings Tester info

Diagrams design document:

./HYGRO-Tester-Design-Documents/HYGRO-Tester-Design-Diagrams.pdf

HYGRO Tester Design Diagrams info

Target device execution: Arty A7-100 with Pmod HYGRO on test header, Pmod CLS on extension cable, Pmod 7SD on extension cable

Target device execution: Arty S7-25 with Pmod HYGRO on test header, Pmod CLS on extension cable, Pmod 7SD on extension cable

Target device execution: Zybo Z7-20 with Pmod HYGRO on test header, Pmod CLS on extension cable, Pmod 7SD on extension cable

Block diagram architecture of the HDL designs:

Top Port diagram architecture of the HDL designs: